Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 119 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.49% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.86% 1.83% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £413 £350 £206
25th Percentile £459 £469 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +31.43% -20.45%
75th Percentile £606 £716 £627
90th Percentile £738 £764 £705
London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 646 491 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.32% 24.62% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 325 311
10th Percentile £401 £368 £363
25th Percentile £459 £456 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £642
90th Percentile £727 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.52 £20.22
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.63 £21.41
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.61 £25.99
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +10.10% -49.54%
75th Percentile £58.58 £55.08 £39.56
90th Percentile £69.70 £81.88 £54.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -47.37%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -17 10 £513 -10.87% 10
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) International Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) BYOD
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) High Availability
1 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) MCSA
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) VMware